Racism Against Police Officers

Recently, the news has portrayed police officers to be racist showing clips of officers using force to arrest non-white civilians. Because of the media, police officers are looked at by the public in a negative way. Many researchers have studied the to see if there is any affiliation between race and how a non- white civilian is treated by a white officer. This article focuses on the relationship between officers and a civilians race when it comes to the use of force. Some research goes to show that there has been no correlation with how much force is used and the ethnicity of a civilian. According to these researchers, recent studies show that those in the minority groups are more likely to be arrested (Jetelina, K. K., Jennings, W. G., Bishopp, S. A., Piquero, A. R., & Gonzalez, …show more content…
The Blue Team report is where if a police officer used any kind of force, that officer has to now fill out a report describing the individual and stating the force they used. These are expected to be completed right after the incident happens and is sent to the supervisor for approval. The reports go through the supervisors to keep the officers honest so the data is reliable. From 2014-2015 Dallas Police Officers filed 1693 reports. Through out the reports researchers analyzed that white officers with a non-white civilian made up forty-eight percent of the reports. Of that forty-eight percent,sixty-seven percent was a white officer with an African American citizen. Almost half of the reports happened because the civilian was intoxicated. Researched also showed that there was more intermediate weapon used with mixed races encounters than a white on white encounter. The research of Dallas Police Department shows that there is a relationship between the ethnicity of a civilian and the ethnicity of a police officer (Jetelina, K. K., Jennings, W. G., Bishopp, S. A., Piquero, A. R., & Gonzalez, J. R.